328 The American Naturalist. [April 
out at the forward end. In another cocoon there still lay in 
store another suprise, for on tearing apart the hairy fibers, out 
rolled a small undetermined gray spider which was snugly 
secreted and warmly covered for the winter. The spider was 
tumbled into a bottle of preserving fluid and now bears testi- 
mony to the unprofitable experience of tonsa a ram- 
shackle old dwelling of Orgyia. 
